A Senate committee has recommended the Commonwealth Radioactive Waste Management Act be repealed at the start of next year.

The Environment Senate Committee was asked to look at whether the act should be repealed.

The legislation overrides the power of the Northern Territory to stop a nuclear waste dump being built in the jurisdiction.

Four sites, including Muckaty Station near Tenant Creek, are being considered.

During last year's federal election, Labor promised to repeal the legislation, but is yet to do so.

The committee received 103 submissions from individuals, groups and organisations and held public hearings in Alice Springs and Canberra.

The committee has found the legislation strips people of legal rights, is discriminatory and flawed.

It's recommending it to be repealed in the first few Parliamentary sitting weeks of 2009.